ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY EMERGENCY CALL APPLICATION FOR ANDROID

Android is an operating system for mobiles which is based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. Android is full featured and lightweight. Most of the Android applications are written in Java-like language that can be ported to new platform easily thereby adopting huge number of useful mobile applications. This paper elaborates the enhanced functionality of the emergency call for android. This is an application that you activate before you might get into an emergency situation i.e. before walking alone through a tunnel. Then you have to press a button or a finger on the screen. As soon as you lift the finger from that button/screen, the device will send an emergency call or message to a friends, family, police, and doctors and send the exact current position. As soon as they know the position of user they can reply to the rest of people.